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. 2019 Mar 29;24(Suppl 1):S35–S41. doi: 10.1093/pch/pxz019

Table 3.

Fear of needles and attitude about need for vaccination

Prevaccination session Postvaccination session
Baseline
(n=11)
Post-tool review
(n=11)
Baseline
(n=10)
Post-tool review
(n=10)
How afraid are you of getting vaccination needles? Pick a number from 0 to 10, where 0 is no fear and 10 is worst possible fear.
Fear score (range, 0–10)* 5 (1–9)a,b 4 (1–9)a 2 (0–8)b 2 (0–8)
Do you think you should get vaccinations?
Number of ‘Yes’ responses** 7 (64)c,d 9 (82)c 9 (100)d,† 10 (100)

Values are median (range) or frequency (percent).

*Friedman test: P=0.166.

**Cochran’s Q test: P=0.066.

n=9.

Wilcoxon signed rank test for a-priori pairwise comparisons: aprevaccination baseline vs. prevaccination post-tool, P=0.157, bprevaccination baseline vs. postvaccination baseline, P=0.091.

McNemar test for a-priori pairwise comparisons: cprevaccination baseline vs. prevaccination post-tool, P=0.50, dprevaccination baseline vs. postvaccination baseline, P=0.25.